Woman in
Mission
On Sunday, July 10, we closed the
school year of “Cana” in Bozoum the Center of Women Promotion.
It is a Center that we created a few
years ago, helping women reaching an education (it lasts three years) in a
variety of areas: French language, mathematics, childcare, sewing, cutting,
cooking and nutrition, knitting, embroidery ...
It is an activity deeply rooted in
our heart. In Central African culture woman is the heart of home and family,
but often its role is very limited. Almost all of the family administration
weighs is on women shoulders. Unfortunately generally girls don’t have many
opportunities to study. Often, after a few years in elementary school, the
girls leave studies in order to take care for younger siblings and the house.
That's why we opened this training
Center, in which many girls and women are able to get a good education, through
which they can then open small activities that help to have some independence
and to better deal with their children and family .
The Center is named after
"Cana" because it’s at Cana’s wedding (John 2, 1-11) that Mary urges
and gets by Jesus his first miracle, which is the beginning of public mission
of the Messiah.
Wednesday I resumed my traveling,
destination Cameroon (about a thousand kilometers away). I leave taking the straight
road from Bozoum to Bouar recently reopened, after twelve years of unavailability.
I did face some adventure because of the mud, but I managed to get through, and
here I am now in Cameroon with my Carmelite friars.
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